No Party But Still a Feast

This Sunday we’ll be celebrating St. Bartholomew’s Feast Day with our 5 pm live-stream, limited capacity in-person service with drive thru communion distribution immediately following. Register HERE to attend in person. 

We have marked St. Bart’s Day with a big party the last two years. It gives us an opportunity to invite friends, enjoy fellowship, food, and good music, and simply give thanks to God for our life as a church. This year, though, will be much different, and so we grieve that loss and change. But not having a party does not detract from this feast when we will give thanks to God for His holy apostle Bartholomew. 

The apostles served as the rock and foundation of the Church on which Christ would build His kingdom, Himself being the cornerstone (Eph 2:20). They were imperfect men who yet obeyed Christ and followed Him closely, even unto death. They were filled with the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost and they boldly proclaimed the Gospel to both Jew and Gentile in their respective missions. So this Sunday as we celebrate St. Bartholomew, we remember his love for Christ and ask God to help us “love what he believed and preach what he taught” (Collect for St. Bartholomew’s Day).  

The live-stream and bulletin will be available via THIS LINK on Sunday afternoon at 5pm.

As we behold the face of God in the face of Christ, we are transformed into his image. This is what it means to be fully human—to become like Jesus, the truly human one, and to grow more and more in the freedom of the children of God.